Kamal-Ilayaraaja-Singeetham Rao-MUMBAI EXPRESS

[jaiganes]

Saw Mumbai Xpress and was disappointed with so many "biased and intellectual reviews". The movie is a good one, a good satire on money crazy society and how an innocent man gets more than what he wants (money & relationship) while seemingly more brilliant people fail in their blinding quest for money. The chaplin effect is very marked in Kamal's screenplay. The scene leading upto the climax is so ingeniously planned and executed, I for a moment was wondering how I missed the "presence of scissors" in manisha's bed. If that was cool then "Ragasiya police" and "underwear cops" and "sexena" were just nice pieces of misdirection !! Pasupathi has shown that if somebody gives him a good role, he can show his full talent. Vaiyyapuri has enormous confidence of kamal and he has not let kamal down. So too has Nasser, who shows that his talent in comedy is no small measure. Santhana bharathi as chettiyar is too good and Manisha koirala is apt. Koavai sarala has done a negative role in a comic way.
In digital format, long shots are somewhat blurred while colour toning also is somewhat funny.In the crane scene () the crane is 'too yellowish" against the shadow hidden backdrop. Is it intentional? I dont know!! However the crane scene is too much. Watch out for kamal saying to pasupathi that he is fine and the stylish way he climbs up the crane and starts operating it.
Special mention for the kid and the horse in that particular order.

Special mention must go to Ilayaraja for "kurangu kayyil maalai".
However the music during chase scene is not clearly audible and the noise is too loud and abrasive and could have been avoided.

[dude]

Small digression...

Kamal on Inspirations

http://tamil.galatta.com/entertainme...p?n=kamal2.txt

Kamal speaks about the inspirations and how the makers of Doubtfire and Godfather got inspired from some other movies!!

Idukku peru daan "sappa kattu" Avan copy adichan, ivan copy adichan, adhanaala naan adicha thapilla-ngra range-kku pesaraaru...

[tmrrmt]

Guys - in today's Times of India, a big size professionally done advt has been put up for the audio of Shyam Benegal's BOSE

WHY THE HELL DIDN"T KAMAL DO THE SAME FOR MX AUDIO ? I find it bizarre to say the least - having worked and extracted such jazz-rich stuff from IR, couldn't Kamal have at least done some sensible, aggressive marketing for the same ? forget the results/outcome of the marketing - at least the satisfaction of having done it would have been there and who knows, at least the audio might have created ripples

how and why Kamal resorts to such quixotic thinking is beyond me!

[Cinefan]

Naga-Numerology paduthum paadu.

Jai-Nice review,where did you see the film-Chennai or Bangalore?

tmrrmt:I read kamal's interview to Kalki,he says he was so disappointed with the way music companies treated the music of MX that he wanted to prove that the album can be sold even without stocking it in music shops.That's the reason why there were no ad's put up,the intention was not to sell it to the public thro' the normal route.Yes,you can argue with him about these tactics but under the circumstances where he started a audio company at the last min,it would have been very very difficult to put the distribution in place.

[tmrrmt]

Cinefan - but post release also, there is hardly any marketing going on - besides, is there some way we can get an update on the album sales of MX (both Hindi and Tamil versions) ? are there MX (Hindi version) MP3s ? I heard that in Andhra at least both the audio and the movie (MX) are doing well - can anybody confirm ?

[sureshmehcnit]

MX hindi version audio CD is released by Venus music and it is now available in stores for 99/-

[Cinefan]

Cinefan - but post release also, there is hardly any marketing going on - besides, is there some way we can get an update on the album sales of MX (both Hindi and Tamil versions) ? are there MX (Hindi version) MP3s ? I heard that in Andhra at least both the audio and the movie (MX) are doing well - can anybody confirm ?

Telugucinema.com had an article where it said MX has bombed&CM is doing very very avg business.

http://www.telugucinema.com/c/movies/bo_apr2705.shtml

Post release marketing:I think Kamal has proved a point&is already onto VV.He recently mentioned that like the audience he gets bored very quickly&moves forward to his next venture immediately.I am sure MX is out of his system.

[tmrrmt]

http://web.mid-day.com/columns/khali...ril/107618.htm

Genius Khalid Mohammed who gave us the timeless masterpiece FIZZA is at it again!

[Cinefan]

Khalid is another S.Anand.There was a time when he was literally eating out of Kamal's hands(ever read his wonderful interviews with Kamal for Filmfare),then came a spat(don't know the details)&suddenly Govinda became a better actor .he is a journalist -filmmaker gone wrong.What kind of integrity has he got if he lets personal prejudices colour his writings?Anyway no one takes his reviews seriously these days&there was a time when he was the King among reviewers.What a fall.

[Kanna]

Dude,

Idukku peru daan "sappa kattu" Avan copy adichan, ivan copy adichan, adhanaala naan adicha thapilla-ngra range-kku pesaraaru...

All are copy cats in one way or other, you, me, everybody in this forum, and everybody in this world!!!

Nenja thottu sollunga illainu???????

I don't know why the hell people are complaining when it comes to Kamal!!